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How about turning the tables and asking each of the guilds how we would handle a particular writing problem? For example, throwing us a story with problems in it and asking how we would fix it? Or asking us how we would critique a particular story. Then we get to compare our answer, and the answers from the other guilds, against the expert opinion. That’s my Number #1 suggestion.

My #2 suggestion is that we have a critiques forum for stories and poetry that is visible to all registered users – but not the rest of the Internet. That way we get more eyeballs and more feedback on people’s stories. It also helps people who do have shared interests get help from people who are interested. That way we make guild participation more fun and less of an obligation. Clean the guilds down to a focus on team effort and getting us more interaction, more opportunities to write and solve writing problems, and the helping each other out part WILL happen. But ya’ll need to recognize what we came here for – help, practice, learning – and deliver on that. Let’s get some feedback from some experts on some actual writing, and let the community deliver the economy of scale.

@myclipboardismyviolin, these are good suggestions and I have passed them on. I think the last one is an especially good one.

@katherineh and @jenwriter17, I don’t honestly know if smaller guilds would help. We have discussed having more guilds, but the problem is the number of guildmasters. It is challenging finding enough of them who are qualified. Then there is the participation problem. Even with our large numbers in Avensbeck, we have basically 5 of us participating in recent months. The goal is to have 20 new comments every week (if I am remembering correctly). We haven’t had that except during prompt wars since I became the guildmaster.

All that to say, I have passed your thoughts along and we will continue discussing things.